List of hackathons in Folkestone, United Kingdom in 2015

  Overview Located in a great place for sky high ideas, coding and views - Level39 at Canary Wharf - the 12th edition of Hack/Make The Bank Fin Tech Hackathon will host up to 80 programmers, designers and members of the financial services industry who will come together for two days of brainstorming and software creation. The room will be full of innovation and game changing ideas in retail banking, capital markets, payments, big data and beyond! Attendees have a host of application programming interfaces (APIs) and services they can leverage and combine in order to bring their innovative ideas to life. They can participate alone or join a team. Each team will work on a FinTech idea developed during the hackathon or prior to it. All the participants will demo their hacks to a panel of bank executives, FinTech entrepreneurs and the general public at the end of the day. This hackathon will be held at Level39, Europe’s largest accelerator space for fintech, located in Canary Wharf - London's leading finance and business district. This event is sponsored by Accenture and Temenos and co-organised by TESOBE / Open Bank Project and Level39.                           

  Register for Fintech Storm - 29 October at http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   In continued tradition of our stupendously successful Fintech Storm Series Genius Incubator Presents   Fintech Storm - IOT, Telematics & Payments 29 October 2015   Come meet the disruptive thought　leaders that are imagining the future of banking.   We invited the most innovative firms applying technology to solve industry problems This is a Meetup not to be missed with talks and a round table where the movers and shakers of the hottest new industry - Fintech - will debate opportunities, and challenges of the new age bank! Register here: http://fintechstorm29october2015.eventbrite.com   What: Fintech Storm featuring disrupters Meet the CEOs See Product Demos Join the Fintech Revolution! When: 6:00pm-9:00pm 29 October 2015 Where: Rainmaking Loft, International House 1 Saint Katherine's Way, London, E1W 1 UN 2 min walk from MOORGATE and 4 min walk from Liverpool street stations   "besotted with blockchain.." On @Linkedin by our Founder Arifa Khan. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan    Joe Nash, Developer Advocate, Braintree Payments Joe is a Developer Advocate at Braintree Payments, a PayPal Company. Having learnt the dark arts of FP at the University of Nottingham, Joe is passionate about functional techniques and their benefits to developers. He believes in the educational benefits of hackathons and hack culture, and helped kickstart student hackathons in the UK as part of the European team at Major League Hacking. Insert Token: Tokenization and Immersion Tokenization is a vital technique for insuring security of critical user information, from usernames and passwords, to credit card numbers. But it's capable of more than just keeping us safe; it can improve the experience of our apps beyond measure. In this lightning talk, we'll do a quick, deep dive into what immersion means, and how you can ensure it in your apps using tokenization. Andy Goldby, Chief Product Officer, The Floow    Andy is a highly respected General Insurance industry executive and Qualified Actuary, with significant experience of industry issues built up over years of participation on the ABI Motor Committee and MIB Levy Committee.   He is responsible for ensuring that the telematics product delivered to insurers and fleet managers is tailored to the client’s needs and that the scoring derived from The Floow's low-cost telematic system can be provided to motor insurers, car makers and fleet operators with actionable insights to improve pricing and increase customer loyalty and ROI.    The Floow   “Independent UK based telematics company The Floow supports leading insurers across the globe. It was founded in 2012 by sector leaders specialising in computer science, business and insurance. It produces comprehensive analytics and digital end-user services; delivering the world’s most advanced, low cost telematics - making vehicles safer and cheaper.”   Thibaut Rouffineau, IOT Expert, Canonical   Thibaut will show how to simply build an appstore for your IOT Gateway (or for that matter your fridge, your drone or your router).    It will explain how applications can be delivered in a simple and secure manner and let end user reconfigure or add new functionalities to their IOT Gateways in a click!     Lui Smith, UK Lead, Coinjar      As UK lead and general manager for Australia's largest Bitcoin wallet and exchange service,  - Setting up the legal, financial, and regulatory infrastructure for CoinJar's UK/Europe operation. - Building and leading a marketing strategy for UK service. - Assisting with recruitment of London engineering staff. - Establishing support services team for European timezones. - Generally leading and taking responsibility for CoinJar's UK/Europe operations as they grow.Postgraduate Researcher University College London September 2012 – September 2014 (2 years 1 month)Department of Anthropology conducted ethnographic research examining the politics and motivations of the Bitcoin community as part of UCL's digital anthropology program. My research included the largest qualitative survey of Bitcoin users to date (1000+ responses). I also examined the unique role of the block chain as a shared community canon, the demographics of early adopters, and the social processes that allow digital tokens to hold financial value. maintained a blog throughout my research at http://simulacrum.cc/category/bitcoin/     Dagmara Lacka, CEO & Co-founder, Boldmind     Boldmind, an Internet of Things company, we create innovative applications for real world devices. We tailor strategies for organizations looking to unlock the wealth of intelligent data generated by connected devices.  We believe a competitive advantage will be achieved     by connecting the dots of various data points generated between humans and machines.   Boldmind was founded in 2012 by leading professionals in the digital, marketing, technology and media spaces. The aim was to use our multi- disciplinary knowledge to bring dedicated software and product solutions to clients who were beginning to realise the marketing potential of web, mobile and connected devices to drive business growth.   Boldmind delivers a viable, cost effective and rapid route to market for organisations looking to leverage the growing opportunities driven by the Internet of things.   Thrilled to announce our next debate on capital markets 6-9pm in London featuring the most awaited  innovations : Otonomos, Heckyl, Blockchain Tech corp and Streamdata.io to embrace the technology for banking. Our debates are high in Intellectual quotient, scholastic ability and debate to transform the world banking and financial order.      Fintech is at one of the most exciting points in its evolution, with disruption occurring everywhere you look. Alternative financing models, mobile payments and  bitcoin are gaining increasing traction with consumers and businesses alike. Some challenges remain for certain fintech businesses targeting the mainstream, but there’s no denying 2015 is proving a huge year for the global fintech industry.      “The top 12 VCs that are reputed for spotting billion dollar valuation unicorns early such as Benchmark, Andreeson Horrowitz, Union Square Ventures and Sequoia are investing in Fintech in 4 main verticals of Online Lending, Personal Finance Management, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, Marketplaces and Peer to Peer platforms.     We are helping emerging talent in Fintech get that early exposure to the banking & financial services ecosystem  as well as investors, facilitating a deeper understanding and dialogue. We are also evangelising Fintech and bringing sophisticated knowledge of research labs of disrupters like Coinsciences, Cubits, Blockchain.info, Symbiont.io and their futuristic thinking to the common man.     Talk to our audience. And we have fiercely loyal repeat audience. And they can now debate confidently with technologists on topics as esoteric as blockchain to as mundane as mobile payments.      The most sought after Fintech companies share a number of characteristics:     They operate in large growing global markets  They are world class in their niche  They have attractive underlying business models with strong recurring revenues  Demonstrable opportunity to drive top line growth  World class talent and teams      Come along for a rich education on this hot new industry thats growing fast and reimagining our economy. Come join a lively evening of insightful presentations from disruptive fintech players and engaging discussions, rounded off by networking drinks with more senior executives from major banking and financial services companies, hot startups and investors.    More profiles to come..                              Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm Series     Arifa Khan Founder Fintech Storm   Read what the Londoners have to say about http://FintechStorm.com the spectacularly successful brand monthly series Arifa Khan has built, here.   Arifa Khan is a former investment banker in Private Equity led Leveraged Buyouts Mandate M&A transactions, a seasoned finance, strategy and operations executive based in the city of the London, with over 15 years experience in finance, specialising in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products & Credit. She has worked with two suisse banks Credit Suisse & UBS. She has deep sector expertise in finance, operational insights, and the business acumen to forge big strategic partnerships.   Arifa has independently advised companies of all sizes from pre revenue to deal sizes of GBP300m on venture capital funding, scaling, international expansion, strategy etc. As an investment banker she has executed LBOs of sizes upto several billion USD across Europe across verticals such as Healthcare, Media Telecom & IT, Financial Institutions. She is a thought leader on innovation and disruption in financial services and a sought after speaker on payments and fintech at international conferences such as ICBI’s Payments International in London Mar 17-20, and will be speaking at Women’s Economic Forum Goa May 7-11. She currently architects Wharton Distinguished Dinner Series for Wharton UK Alumni Club as a Wharton Club Committee Member, and is currently the Chairperson London Chapter for All Ladies League.   Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras in Chemical Engineering. She is passionate about fintech and Blockchain. See her vision of Blockchain here. Read "besotted with blockchain.." An overview of Blockchain's potential by Arifa Khan on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/besotted-blockchain-arifa-khan Read a review of Fintech Storm's recent event Open Bank / Marketplace Banking held on 22nd July here : "A tale of APIs.." By Arifa Khan   Read an article "war for your wallet.." on Payments and mobile wallets by Arifa Khan on Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/war-your-wallet-arifa-khan?trk=prof-post     Who should Attend?   Senior  directors or advisors   Professionals working in banking and financial services industry   Compliance or Regulatory professionals   Managers and strategists of finance or investment companies   Advisers and Financial services consultants   Digital transformation specialists   Blockchain researchers   Fintech startups   MBA & other students specialising in finance   Public policy makers     See Fintech Storm in action here   Dont miss Fintech Storm Capital Markets  October 15 http://fintechstorm15october2015.eventbrite.com Dont miss Fintech Storm Cloud computing & Cloud Storage November 12 http://fintechstormnovember2015.eventbrite.com Look up our upcoming events at one place http://finetchstorm.eventbrite.com                               Join the delegation of European Technology firms to India December 17th 2015, to New Delhi at Hotel Taj Mahal  Europe-India Conclave Future of Banking, Payments & Technology 2015 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/europe-india-conclave-banking-payments-technology-december-arifa-khan  http://fintechstorm.com/europe-india Read "Technology for Transportation" on Linkedin by Arifa Khan https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/road-indias-riches-technology-transportation-from-europe-arifa-khan See Fintech Storm in action here

With a focus on doing not talking, hackathons are a collaborative way to solve problems – starting with an issue and collectively developing solutions. It’s all about practical creativity. This Saturday hack takes a new look at volunteering and asks how can volunteering attract people who wouldn’t usually volunteer? We know that ‘volunteering’ can be a loaded term – with its connotations of charity shop shifts and regular commitment, it can turn off as many people as it attracts. Yet the evidence shows that volunteering benefits the volunteer just as much as it benefits those who the volunteer helps. We want to understand what can be done to overcome obstacles to volunteering and what would make volunteering a more attractive proposition for more people. Hack participants will set their own agenda and create their own solutions – it’s your hack and your ideas. Remember, a hack is to be enjoyed, not endured – come along, eat pizza, try something different and see what you can achieve in a day. Theme Collaborative Citizens Who should attend People who work with charities; people who work in charities. People who volunteer; people who don’t volunteer. Citizens; technologists; designers; communicators; service design experts – anyone who is interested in trying a different way to create practical solutions. About the hosts @hackessex Civic Camps are an approach that creates, in double-quick time, collective responses to societal challenges. We bring together people from all walks of life with an interest in getting stuff done. Our hacks are entrepreneurial in spirit, and are opportunities to problem-solve for all participants.

The SLICKMEM and SLoBR Semantic Media projects present: The Linked Music Hackathon brings together those with a shared passion for music and the data that describes it: students, coders, researchers from all disciplines, and members of the public; all with an interest in exploring, combining, playing, hacking, and creating with the vast wealth of musical information now available in digital form. We will provide access to a number of linked (and potentially linkable!) musical datasets drawn from sources including the British Library and the BBC, with a particular focus on historical music data including early European music of the 16th and 17th centuries; as well as a collection of tools and expertise to aid in the interlinking, analysis, creative use, and (re-)publication of this data. Come and bring your ideas, enthusiasm, your own datasets and software, arts and craft materials, friends and colleagues! Technical expertise is not a requirement (although certainly much valued!) -- friendly techy collaborators will be available on the day. The goal is, loosely stated, to create something amazing, from scratch, within a very short time. This event will take place at Goldsmiths, University of London, from 10am to 5pm on Fri October 9th 2015. Datasets taking part:      British Library - Early Music Online (Royal Holloway, University of London)      Electronic Corpus of Lute Music      BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show programme data       Concert programme data from the In Concert project       More to come!   Provisional schedule 09:30: Coffee 10:00: Introduction 10:30: Presentation of datasets 11:00: Hacking starts! 13:00: Lunch 16:00: Presentations 17:00: Close. Discussions continue at pub! Sponsorship Would you like to sponsor the Linked Music Hackathon? Please get in touch! Adapted from Portion of a ms. leaf by POP (CC BY 2.0) Funding This event is funded by the EPSRC Semantic Media Network. Support Contributing datasets generously provided by: You have data that you would like to contribute? Please send us an e-mail!

Do you want to disrupt one of the most non-digital industries in the world? Are you a hard-core coder, a designer or just a hackathon obsessor? If so, join Startupbootcamp Insurance for an innovative weekend of exclusive insurance challenges and API access from elite insurance partners, as well as top of the range hardware from Intel for you to work with. We strongly advise you to sign up and save the following dates now: 25th, 26th and 27th September. You don't want to miss this event - take the challenge! Follow us on Twitter @sbcInsurance Join us Register now to secure one of the limited places available for the insurance hackathon. The event is being held at our offices in the Rainmaking Loft in central London.   Startupbootcamp Insurance is the leading accelerator focused on insurance innovation, we are based in London with a global community. We have some incredible partners on board, including: Admiral, Allianz, Ergo, Momentum, Lloyds Banking, PwC, Route66, and Unipol. For the first time these partners are going to provide exclusive challenges and API access for attendees to work with during the hackathon. The Task You will be able to form a team at the start of the event, and then work on one of the exclusive challenges or APIs our partners have provided. You will have 48 hours to complete the task. Challenges The challenges will be about general insurance. That includes travel, home, car and health insurance. All of our partners are interested in different aspects of these fields and we can help you develop new solutions by providing you APIs related to blockchain, IoT, wearables and more from our event partners (more information about API to be announced soon!). What will be provided? Wifi is available throughout the building. Sockets, ethernet cables and other sorts of cables are also available.  We do NOT provide laptops and computers so please bring your own and any associated chargers. (Don't forget phone chargers too). Winning Categories Best Technical Solution Best Overall Concept Best Design & Usability Best answer to a challenge Prizes will be be provided from Intel and alike. In addition, there is a £5,000 cash prize to be won.  Refreshments & food Don't worry you won't be hungry, we will make sure you are fed well to ensure you have sufficient fuel to build a pioneering product. Please let us know of any dietary requirements when you register. Provisional agenda Friday, 25th September, 5:30pm-7:30pm - The Introduction 5:30pm Registration 5:45pm Welcome & agenda 6:00pm Partners speak about their challenges and introduce their APIs 6:30pm Ice breaking exercise 6:45pm Participants pitch their idea for 60 seconds 7:45pm Form Teams 8:15pm Intel IoT workshop 6:00pm  9:15pm Start hacking or go home and sleep Saturday, 26th September, 9:00am-midnight - All Day Hacking 9:00am Breakfast served 12:00pm Lunch 4:00pm Ping pong tournament  6:00pm Dinner  Sunday, 27th September, 9:00am-5:00pm - Hacking Towards A Deadline 9:00am Breakfast served 10:00am Pitch Training 12:00pm Lunch 2:00pm Coders self-assessment session 3:00pm Final Presentations     We are proud to announce that we got 8 challenges from our corporate partners: Prizes and technology provided by: #sbcInsurance

An event for members and non-members alike, to network with like-minded women in business, learn from each other and develop our businesses.